ABSTRACT

This book proposes, discusses and preliminarily tests a new theory of motivation and personality: psychological goal dynamics. The book builds a self-organizing model of human psychology, and uses an overarching theoretical framework to create the self-organization theory of motivation and personality through exploring interests, motivation, emotions, humanity and personality. The goal dynamics presented in this book organically integrates existing motivation theories and personality dynamic concepts, and analyzes and discusses the relationship between emotion, motivation and human nature which fills a major gap in the previous motivation and personality theories. This book uses multiple research methods and combines the philosophy of science, theoretical innovations, empirical methods, and practical applications. The goal dynamics theory not only opens up a new world of motivation and personality, but also provide a new theoretical foundation for our understanding of leadership and people management.